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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

First, we need to install samba, a piece of software that handles folder sharing in a format that is compatible with Windows sharing methods:

  1. Ensure that you use update as follows to obtain the latest list of available packages:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install samba  

The install will require around 20 MB of space and take a few minutes.

  1. Once the installation has completed, we can make a copy of the configuration file as follows to allow us to restore defaults if needed:
sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.backup
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf  

Scroll down and find the section named Authentication; change the # security = user line to security = user.

As described in the file, this setting ensures that ...

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